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WordPress SEO for Beginners

Learn the WordPress SEO in an easy to digest manner - No prior SEO experience required!

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A basic understanding of HTML & CSS would be beneficial although not required

Description

Note: If you've already enrolled in my complete WordPress course, you don't need to enroll in this one as it includes the WordPress SEO fundamentals section.

Do you want to improve the SEO of your WordPress website? Well, who doesn't. SEO or Search Engine Optimization is the sole reason of the presence of any person or an organization on the Internet. WordPress is one of the more popular CMS being used today and over 30% of all the websites found on the Internet use WordPress. This crash course, WordPress SEO, is designed to get you up to speed with the WordPress basics in a short span of time.

With WordPress SEO for Beginners, you'll have the following skills in your arsenal:

We'll discuss about optimizing the content in our WordPress website for SEO.

SEO-friendly Content

03:42

Images are an important part of a website and bigger images take a while to load, it's always a good idea to optimize the images for SEO as well.

Optimizing the Images for SEO

05:32

Broken or dead links can hurt your website's SEO. If Google or Bing spider crawls your website's sitemap and finds broken links, it results in a thumbs down as the links which it tried to visit either moved or didn't exist. We'll discuss about how to manage broken or dead links.

In this lecture, we'll configure Yoast as I'll walk you through the recommended Yoast configuration. Yoast is one of the better plugins for managing on-page SEO for WordPress.

Working with Yoast

05:17

A sitemap is crucial as it is a map which can help both the human visitors and search engine spiders to understand the flow of your website. In this lecture, I'll show you an easy way to add a sitemap in our WordPress website.

Speed is one of the most important factors for SEO in 2016. In this lecture, we'll discuss on how to optimize you website for best performance and cut the loading times to half! This, for sure, can work wonders for your WordPress SEO.

Optimizing the WordPress website's Performance - An Important SEO Factor in 2017

Harshwardhan is a software engineering graduate, technology geek and a teacher with a keen interest in web & mobile development. He began his programming ventures with Visual Basic (VB) when he was 10. He began exploring WordPress in early 2012 and has never looked back ever since. In free time, he enjoys building WordPress child themes and loves messing with different source codes.

His passion for teaching is eternal. This started right from his schooling years where he was always a helping hand to his fellow classmates, he loved helping people who wanted to explore an unfamiliar territory.

Apart from programming and teaching, he is an Astronomy Enthusiast and a vivid gamer. He has also developed an Android app on Astronomy called Celestial Info, out of his enthusiasm, which got loved by Astronomy Enthusiasts over the world and is also featured in an International Journal based in France. If it's midnight, he can only be found exploring the heavens with a 12' telescope in his backyard!